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32 34 BY 20 w mqs United States Patent"@ REPEATING SHOT ARCHER-Y BowDOUBLE SIGHT Bert E. Fredrickson, Green Bay, Wis. Application October19, 1956, Serial No. 617,030 6' Claims. (21. 124-24 This inventionrelates to archery equipment and more particularly to a novel archerybow.

An object of this invention is to provide an archery bow with a built-inmagazine to hold additional arrows, the arrangement being such that thearchery bow is truly a repeat shot bow in that it enables the bow to beused exceedingly rapidly. I am aware of prior attempts to make repeatingbows of single shot bows. However, the efforts that were extended inthis behalf were along the lines of adding a quiver in a supposedly moreconvenient place for the archer. Usually the quiver was attacheddirectly to the bow with the theory that the archer would not have toswing his hand over his shoulder in order to receive a second arrow butrather, would have the quiver closer to his hand. My invention isembodied in a bow that has a central opening in which there is a bowrest together with means to support additional arrows on opposite sidesof the rest so that after the first arrow is shot the second arrow isonly a matter of an inch or so away from the shooting position and inthe proper plane. This last feature is important since the use of bowattached quivers of which I am aware has always been with the quiverparallel or approximately parallel to the bow rather than perpendicular,this being the normal shooting position for the arrow.

A further object of the invention is to provide an archery bow with asight of the type having front and rear sight members or assemblieswherein the front sight is held a considerable distance from the rearsight resulting in high accuracy. i

Prior patentees, including myself, have applied sights to bows. It hasbeen found that a more accurate, less expensive and very dependablesight is achieved by having the front sight a greater distance inadvance of the bow than has been the case in the past. Moreover, whenthe sight is so constructed it is capable of intimately coacting withthe repeating nature of the bow. Accordingly, a

further object of the invention is to provide a sight for 1 an archerybow wherein there are means to help in the support of additional arrows,the arrows being so held that they are in the shooting plane orapproximately in the shooting plane and have their nocks supported avery small distance, for example, an inch or a fraction of an inch, fromthe bow string. Such quivers with the arrows mounted on the bow in aplane approximately vertical to the plane of flight of the releasedarrow are undesirable on a hunting bow since the bowmust be moved fromits shooting position after each shot to enable the archer to reach therear end of the arrows mounted in the quiver. Such excessive movement ofthe bow and bow arm alerts and frightens wild game with the result thatany successive shot is normally taken at game in flight where the bowand arrow isat extreme disadvantage. M y invention enables the archer toreach and shoot successive arrows without moving the bow from itsshooting position and with a minimum of motion of the arm drawing thestring thereby increasing the rapidity with which repeated shots can befired.

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Previous archery bows were used either solely for the purpose ofsupplying the propelling force for the arrow in which instances thearrow itself is aimed, or in those instances in which the bow was aimedas well as supplying the propellingforce by means of a sight mounted onthe bow,- no consideration has been given to fixing the rear end of thearrow in a given position on the string so that in actual use the lineof sight on such sights does not bear a constant relationship to theline of flight of successive arrows. A fundamental difierence betweenbows that are constructed in accordance with the invention and priorbows of which I am aware is that bows of the invention are aimed with noattention necessary to be given to the arrow inasmuch as the arrow isautomatically located in a certain, predetermined position with relationto the bow in the manner analogous to a gun and its bullet. In the caseof a rifle, it is the rifle that is aimed and when the trigger is pulledthe hunter knows that the bullet will go in a direction that the rifleis aimed. Additional bullets are automatically fed into the breech ofthe gun for subsequent firing. The hunter gives no attention to thebullet and his full attention to aiming the rifle. This is because heknows that the bullet will go in the direction that the gun is aimed.Therefore, it is a further object of this invention to provide anarchery bow whose use closely simulates the action and handling of arifle whereby by merely aiming the bow and having a rest for the arrowsin a fixed, immovable position with respect to the bow, thearrowautomatically travels in the direction that the bow rather than thearrow is aimed. In addition to this, the supplying of second and thirdarrows to the shooting position is done in a manner analogous to thesupplying of additional bullets to the breech of a gun. The analogyexists by having the arrows automatically approximately aimed due totheir position within the same central opening in the how that the arrowis shot from and in the same plane that the arrow is to be shot with thenocks of the secondary arrows being exceedingly close to the bow stringso that upon release of the arrow or arrows from the magazine theypractically fall into the shooting position.

A more particular object of the invention is to provide a bow havingstructural refinements in the make-up thereof, such refinements beingthe location of the magazines very close to the arrow rest and in thesame central opening as the arrow rest, and the manner of supporting thearrow heads of the arrowsin the magazines.

These together with other objects and advantages which will becomesubsequently apparent reside in the details of construction andoperation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, whereinlike numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an archery bow constructed inaccordance with the invention:

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken approximately on the line 22 ofFigure 1;

Figure 3 is a side view of the bow, the bow being fragmentarilyillustrated;

Figure 4 is a fragmentary front view of the bow of Figure 1;

Figure 5 is a fragmentary rear view of the bow in Figure 1;

Figure 6 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken approximatelyon the line 66 of Figure 3;

Figure 7 is a transverse sectional view taken approximately on the line7-7 of Figure 6;

Figure 8 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 88 of Figure 7showing principally the means for holding the rear sight in theselected, adjusted position;

Figure 9 is an exploded fragmentary perspective View 7 showing onestructural manner of attaching the front sight to the bow;

Figure 10 is a perspective View of the front sight;

Figure 11 is a perspective view of a part of the rear sight;

Figure 12 is a perspective view of the magazine adapted to hold one ormore additional arrows; and

Figure 13 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the bow after thearrow has been shot and before one of the secondary arrows is removedfrom the magazine and placed into the shooting position, this; viewshowing the proximity of the nocks of the arrows andthe bow string andshowing that the secondary arrows are in' the shooting plane or veryclose to it. I

Archery bow 10is made of bow sections 12 and 14, these sections beingconstructedof glass fiber, wood or other material having the necessaryelasticity that is called for in a high quality archery bow. Section 12is fitted in and secured to socket 16 while section 14 is fitted in andsecured in socket 18, these sockets being at opposite ends of thesection 20 of the bow. Hand-grip 22 is located above socket 18 and belowthe opening 24 which is formed in the section 20. Opening 24 is definedby an oval body having sides 26 and 28 as well as upper and lower walls31 and 32. The lower wall has an upwardly opening recess 34 (Figures 6and 7) within which to accommodate an extra bow string. Sides 26 and 28have slots 38 and 40 therein with the side surfaces provided with tracks41 and 42, respectively. Each track consists of a pair of inwardlyextending V-shaped rails.

A rear sight 44 is located within opening 24; The rear sight consists ofa sight member 46 having an upstanding ladder 48 through which to sight.The sight member 46 has an opening through which spindle 50 is passedwith sight member 46 being held firmly in place by means of setscrew 52so that after being adjusted the sight member 46 may be held in a fixedposition on the spindle 50. The spindle 50 has its opposite ends mountedin slides 53 and 54 so that the sight 44 may be adjusted upwardly anddownwardly within the volume enclosed within opening 24. Slide 53 has apair of outwardly opening ways within which the track 41 is nested.Slide 54 has a pair of outwardly opening ways 55 within which the railsof track 42 are nested (Figure 8). The ways 55 of slide 54 and the waysof slide 53 are constructed identically. For the ways 55 there is acompression spring 57 located in a bore 58 in slide 54. The ends of thecompression spring bear on members 59 and 60, constantly pressing themoutwardly of slide 54- and in frictional contact with the track 42. Anend of spindle 50 has a slot 63 (Figure 6) and there is a taperedthreaded bore 65 adjacent to and in registry with slot 63. Accordingly,by tightening tapered setscrew 66 in threaded bore 65, the end ofspindle 511 is spread in order to bind against the walls of the bore inslide that accommodates that end of spindle 5G.

The front sight 68 on a bow which is constructed in accordance with theinvention is located well in advance of the bow. The distance betweenthe front sight member 70 and the rear sight member 46 is as great aspossible from a practical handling and storage standpoint so as toincrease the accuracy of the sight. Front sight '68 consists of a frame71 having sides 72 and 73 and a 'top wall 74 located above theintermediate transverse frame member 75. Sight member 75 consists ofconcentric rings 76 and 77 held assembled by a transverse plate 78connected to each along a diameter thereof. Vertical sight post 79passes through aligned openings in the concentric rings 77 and 78 and isfixed to one of them by means of a setscrew 3t). Sight post 79 extendsthrough slots $2 and 83, respectively, which are formed in thetransverse frame member 75 and the top wall 74 of the front sight frame71. By having fasteners, for example, --a head and nut, on opposite endsof the sight post it'may be tightened in a selected lateral positionthereby adjust- 4 ing the sight member 71). Rotationally, the adjustmentis cared for by loosening and tightening setscrew 80.

The lower ends of the sides 72 and 73 have holes and 86 in which thefront sight support arms 87 and 88 are fastened. The rear ends of thesearms have means for mounting them in a detachable fashion on the section20 of the bow. Suggested means are shown in Figure 9 and consist of atapered clamp plate 9 0 fixed onside 23 of section together with clampwhich is at the inner extremity of front sight mounting arm 88. Clamp91has a tapered dovetail slot 93 which fits over the clamp plate 99thereby holding the arm 88 detachably fixed on the intermediate bowsection 24 and in such position as to project forwardly of the bow. Forstorage and transportation the front sight 68 is easily detached fromthe bow. Front sight frame has holes in sides 72 and 7.3 above holes 85and 86. The additional holes in the sides of the frame 71 have grommets94 and 95 in them within which the arrow heads, for example, arrow heads96 and 97, are fitted. Accordingly, grommets 94 and 95 support the frontends of the auxiliary arrows 98 and 99 whose heads 96 and 97 werementioned previously.

, Frame 71for the front sight 68, then, constitutes means to support theheads of the auxiliary arrows while the arrow shafts, near thefietchings, are maintained in and are supported in mounts 102 and 104,respectively, the mounts being of identical construction. Each mount ismade of a resilient and flexible material, for example, a plasticelastomer or rubber. Mount 102 is typical (Figure l2), and includes abody 108 that has sides provided with ways 110 and 111 dimensioned tofit on the rails of track 41. A downwardly extending tongue 112 fits onthe rounded surface of the bottom wall 32 and bears against a side ofthe arrow rest 116. The corresponding tongue 118 on mount 104 bearsagainst the opposite side of the arrow rest 116, the latter being madeof a material similar to that used in the mounts 162 and 104.

Mount 102 has a pair of forwardly extending walls 121 and 122, each wallhaving a horizontal slot 124 and 126 whose upper and lower surfaces aresemi-cylindrical so as to form arrow shaft receiving pockets. Yet, thearrows are easily slipped from the pockets andwhen they are so moved thearrows automatically fall on the top surface of the arrow rest 116 andin the shooting position. As seen best in Figure 6, there are two mounts102 and 10 1 that are disposed at the lowermost part of opening 24 andthat have the arrow shaft pockets confronting each other. Arrow rest 116forms a closure for the compartment 34 with a stopper formed at itslower surface to fit in the'opeu top of recess 34. This is but onesuggested way of firmly attaching the arrow rest 116 in place but yetallowing it to be moved for access to the extra bow string in thecompartment 34.

Bow string 1311 is attached to the ends of the sections 12 and 14 of thebow in the customary manner. A knot 132 at a predetermined position onthe string centers the rear end of the arrow in a fixed position on thestring and together with the arrow rest 116 holds each successive arrowin the same fixed position with respect to the how so that when the bowis aimed by means of the sight, the lines of flight of successive arrowsbear a fixed relation to the point of aim. In using the archery bow 10.the principal function, although not the exclusive function. is to huntgame. Most effective hunting of game, for example, deer, is at a rangeof about fifty feet. Most game slain by Indians with a how was done atdistances of only a few feet. Themaximum range of my equipment isgenerally considered to be a hundred yards; actually a moving deer inthe woods at ranges of overone hundred feet has an excellent chance ofliving( When hunted with a bow and arrow, deer have a good chance ofsurvival at distancesof 60 to 70 feet. One must be skillful or lucky atthose distances, butat closer range, say 50 feet or less, the bow andarrow is quite lethal. At such short distances it is essential to beable to shoot the arrow and re-load with great rapidity, otherwise thedeer will obviously run away. By supporting the additional arrows in aquiver regardless of where it is mounted, too much time elapses betweenthe first and second shot. Accordingly, with the sight described hereinthere is greater chance of being accurate with the first shot, but wherea second shot is required, one of the secondary arrows will be found tobe almost in the shooting position automatically upon completion of thefirst shot. The second arrow is pulled rearwardly very slightly andinwardly of opening 26 thereby separating the head from its mount andseparating the shaft from the pocket in which it is accommodated in itsmount whereby the arrow will tend to move down by gravity and directlyon the arrow rest with the nock of the arrow in proper align ment withthe bow string. All that is necessary now is to pull the bow string, aimthe bow without regard for the arrow because the arrow will beautomatically positioned correctly and then shoot the arrow.

The foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles ofthe invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes willreadily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limitthe invention to the exact construction and operation shown anddescribed, and accordingly all suitable modifications and equivalentsmay be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention asclaimed.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

1. An archery bow comprising a bow having an opening through whicharrows are adapted to be shot, an arrow rest in said opening, a sightassembly including a forward sight in advance of the arrow and arearward sight located in alignment with said opening, said forwardsight including a frame, a sight member carried by said frame, and meansconnected with said frame to support at least one auxiliary arrow, saidauxilary arrow supporting means being adapted to accommodate the arrowhead, and means in said opening adjacent to but laterally spaced fromsaid arrow rest for releasably supporting the shank of the auxiliaryarrow so that the nock thereof is slightly laterally offset from the bowstring.

2. The archery bow of claim 1, wherein said rearward sight is providedwith means for the support thereof in selected positions of adjustmentabove said means for supporting the shaft of the auxiliary arrow.

3. An archery bow comprising the combination of a plurality of bowsections, one of said bow sections having an opening, an arrow rest insaid opening, said bow having a bow string located behind said opening,and means carried by said one of said sections and located in saidopening for supporting secondary arrows perpendicular to said bow stringwhereby the auxiliary arrows are always in the general shooting plane,said auxiliary arrow supporting means including resilient mounts havinginwardly opening confronting pockets on opposite sides of said arrowrest, said pockets being adapted to embrace the shafts of the auxiliaryarrows and support said arrows in a fixed position independent of othersupporting means, with a means secured to said bow and protrudingforward thereof supporting a front sight assembly with pockets thereinfor detachably receiving the points of said auxiliary arrows while theshafts of the auxiliary arrows are in said confronting pockets in astand-by position adjacent to and in the same general shooting plane asthe arrow on the bow string.

4. The archery bow of claim 3, wherein said means for supporting thefront sight assembly comprises a frame, at least one arm securing saidframe detachably to said bow, said front sight assembly adjustablysupported by said frame, a rearward sight carried by said bow-andadapted to be utilized in connection with the front sight for aiming thebow.

5. The archery bow of claim 4 wherein said opening in which said arrowrest is disposed has a pair of sides in which there are slots, meansadjustably supported in said slots and mounting said rear sight so as tobe adjustable longitudinally in said slots.

6. The archery bow of claim 1, wherein said bow string is provided witha means in a selected position on the string with respect to the ends ofthe bow and bow string, for the purpose of positioning the rear end ofthe arrow at a predetermined angle with respect to an arrow rest mountedin an opening in the handle section of said bow, and in fixed relationto a front and rear sight when said sight is brought into alignment withthe line of sight from the eye to the target.

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